The Affiliate Classroom

Here is a programme that you can join with confidence that takes you by the hand and will show you Finally how to get going On- line as an affiliate marketer, the simple way without spending thousands (which you may already have done),like yours truly!

Anik Singal is a twenty one year old College kid (well that’s how he used to describe himself in his e-mails!) who just 18 months ago stumbled on a way to create a really good Business by helping other people who were also stumbling in the dark trying to get themselves an on-line presence as an affiliate.


He had himself already figured his way through the minefield of becoming an affiliate and had made some money, when a much older (aren’t we all) person approached him for some in- depth help with his business. This person had been struggling for a long while with all the e-books, courses recommendations and downloads until he was dizzy from it all!

Anik realised that here was an opportunity to help a good many people in similar circumstances who found themselves in the affiliate wilderness and at the same time create what obviously had been in his mind all the time…a Unique and Professional business that not only worked but that was very worthwhile in itself. Teaching is not an easy profession whatever the subject but if you are passionate about your Subject then anything is possible.

Success on the Internet or anywhere else on this Planet for that matter requires two basic ingredients without which a project is doomed from the start …a willing Student (who will do what he or she is told or advised!) and a Teacher or Mentor who not only has the special knowledge needed but the passion and fervour to put it across in such a way that the student learns, has fun and gets going with some manic action! Affiliate Marketing is a very diverse topic and it will take you a very long time to get anywhere without help!

Here's the Newsletter Link
Affiliate Classroom Newletter

In case you are wondering that this is a pitch-fest I have been on Anik’s mailing list for about a year now and have seen the way in which he has matured as an Internet pioneer and his new glossy Ezine is amazing!

Below we have included several links that will take you to the Affiliate Classrom Free Ezine which we suggest you subscribe too immediately and also to the introductory page with some glowing recommendations for the Affiliate Classroom Course.
Until you have got your feet wet with the Affiliate Marketing arena and know how this very large slice of the Internet works you shoudn’t really get too involved with creating your own products. Walk before you run and what you learn as a successful affiliate you can then put to very good use as you develop your own Web Site products and services.

Included in the testimonials are two from excellent Internet Marketers that I am aquainted with for some time ...Harvey Segal whose link appears elsewhere and Ian Herculson of The Guru Marketer which I have subscribed to now for nearly two years(that’s a lifetime in Internet Terms)

The Affiliate Classroom

The Affiliate Classroom Membership Page

The Success of your Web Site with KIng Content

by Robin Piggott.

A look at some of the ways a Newbie Web Site owner can get going without shelling out a fortune every week!It just takes some of your time and a good supply of Java!

Apologies for the length of this article I really got to find a way to break them up into manageable chunks!


A Guide for Newbies to get under the Radar of the ever increasing mountain of technophobia that faces a Web site owner starting off.

There is of course a huge amount to learn in setting up and running a Web Site, which is why, I believe, that most newcomers tend to put their trust in a web designer, aka webmaster and leave them to get on with things hoping that all will go well. Big Mistake!

It’s only when, having spent quite a lot of money, you find out that your pride and joy is not giving you the results that you imagined, that alarm bells can start to ring. In my own case this took approximately four years to sink in. After a promising start, with some enquiries from the other side of the world, things not only didn’t get any better but got worse!

Of course, if you are running and developing a new business, which takes a colossal amount of time and commitment, you don’t initially have time to worry too much about the success of your web site. After all, a web site will make you a zillionaire quicker than you can spell the long version of SEO! Big Mistake!

I believe it is just as important to designate sufficient time to understanding how a web site is developed, promoted and maintained as it is to spend time on all the other many facets of a fledgling business.

Many new business owners, myself included, thought in the past that just by having a web site and on-line presence AND a webmaster, that everything would be fine. Visitors and sales would surely follow and increase exponentially. Not So!

Probably the pace of change on-line is more rapid than most businesses realise and therefore if you are going to build a site AND do some reasonable level of commerce from it, you have got to study and learn a number of basics.

1. Key word research should really begin before you set about building your site, because it can help with the choice of a suitable Domain name and continue to assist in the titles and scope of your eventual articles.

2. Original and fresh content related to your prospective field is a necessity, and needs to be uploaded on a very regular basis. Unless you are a very large company with an in-house webmaster, this is probably the most crucial aspect of developing a site in terms of getting good search engine results.

3. Writing new pages can be extremely time consuming and unless you have a suitable C.M.S. package installed, enabling you to become your own webmaster, it’s highly likely you will commence the slow but inexorable slide to oblivion, other wise known as Zero traffic.

4. Build your site by all means but make sure that you become your own webmaster, having taken a crash course in the do’s and don’ts. You absolutely must have the facility to control what goes on within your site. If you miss out on this vital aspect of developing a site, the chances are that you will lose interest and stop creating ideas and content.

5. Learning to write your content, even if this seems a bit beyond your reach to begin with is another essential skill to be fine tuned and believe me, once you have got under way it will become easier with each passing day. Looking at how other web sites operate and the standard of their content will help you along the path.

6. Articles on your area of expertise, submitted to a number of reputable Directories, will almost immediately get you noticed and start to build credibility. These can be modified for use as web pages and will provide ideas for new content on a never ending basis. It has been my experience in the recent past that articles can have a very advantageous effect on search engine results. Credibility is something you can never have too much of.

7. Search engine optimization, a very fancy term, with nearly as many, so called, experts as there are sites on the Web and similar in number to the droves of Web site designers! This is a thorny topic and one best left to the experts, for the behind the scenes work. However, it is my belief that the best results come from fresh and original content put up on your site on a regular basis. Results from my blog of only two months existence, in terms of link popularity, are outstripping my web site that has been on-line for five years. This is all down to regular articles on my chosen topic.

8. A newsletter or ezine, is a very good way of encouraging traffic to your site and building your subscriber list that you can eventually turn into clients, customers and sales. Offering an incentive for your visitors to part with their e-mail address can be by way of a free mini course or e book.. In the case of your newly published E-Book, offering a free download of one complete chapter is something worth considering and is a very popular technique. This is all part of the credibility building process. Once you get used to making regular posts to your newly set up Blog, a newsletter should be relatively easy to produce, without too much stress.

9. A Business Blog is I think, the way forward, for many web site owners who would like to see an increase in traffic of a targeted nature. They are easy to set up and have the advantage of being virtually instant. One of the great things that can help you in becoming more adept as a webmaster, utilising your own blog, is that learning the rudiments of html is not the nightmare that it may appear to be. You can practise away to your heart’s content adding and subtracting code from a blog post and see immediately the result in the preview pane. You don’t even need to publish this post. Again, getting used to viewing the source code of other web sites and seeing how they do things will give you no end of inspiration.

10. Control is the key to success in developing your skill as a webmaster. In a follow–up article on the experiences of a complete Blog novice we will have a look at some of the more interesting facts, figures, and activities that will take you where you want to go, and contribute to the success of your web site, providing you are prepared to allocate sufficient computer time and are not expecting to retire a millionaire in six months!

It is, however, an achievable goal to go from Meek to Geek in just a couple of weeks, with a little effort!

First published at Ezine Articles 31.07.05

Robin Piggott is a professional Driving Instructor,in Limerick, Ireland, who has discovered a new way to have fun.Breaking down the Techno barriers in developing a web site.His blog is situated at: http://astraldrivingschool.blogs.ie and web site at http://www.astralmotoring.ie

Have a look at the e-mail below...

Here is an e-mail from The Internet Marketing Centre pioneered by the late Corey Rudl, now under the capable hands of Derek Gehl.

I purchased this programme recently and it really is all is cracked up to be. A step by step Get-you-going-on-Ebay without the sleepless nights.
Give it a once (or twice!) over and try it out.Let me know what you think...

I will give you my full enchalata in due course.Right now busy re writing my web Site for the Year ahead.

http://www.astralmotoring.ie

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and requires a bit of work on your part.

However, the payoff for you could be absolutely HUGE! Let me
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I've just been talking to my friend Derek Gehl, the CEO of the
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It seems he recently teamed up with a fellow by the name of
Brandon Dupsky, who is currently making $22,000 a DAY selling
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Together, they've come up with an easy-to-follow system that
will let anyone copy Brandon's strategies and start making
serious cash on eBay almost immediately!

Anyway, here's where the 'favor' part comes in...

I'm consider partnering with Derek and Brandon -- but before I
team up with them, I want to be absolutely SURE their new
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So if making a LOT of money (at least $100,000+ in your first
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Derek send you a risk-free "review copy" of their system and
you can give it a try!

Hopefully, you'll be up and running and making BIG profits on
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If not, no big deal... Just send it back and it won't have
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Sound interesting? You can give it a try by going to:

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P.S. I should mention, by the way, that this "system" has
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See for yourself at:

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Ignore Ezine Articles at Your Peril!

Below is an article just published at Ezine Articles on the subject of persistency.
Whether you are getting online for the first time or have been dabbling for a while, getting results is not an overnight thing, despite what some of the Gurus say when they are pitching for their latest products.You know the way... just buy now before it is taken down forever and you will see amazing results!

Yes I know that there are some Marketers out there whose products or recommendations will give extraordinary results quite quickly but you should temper that with the need to set up a good infrastrucure first before expecting miracles.

The stories of Maxed out Credit Cards are everywhere on the 'Net I know I have been there myself and I'll be sharing my experiences with you on an going basis.
You need to be careful of information overload and perhaps pick 8 or 10 Newsletters to subscribe to from the different areas of Internet Marketing..and hold it at that level or you will get swamped.
Here's my list of Internet Gurus you should check out..not in any order of importance

Jim Edwards ... Brad Callan
Joe Vitale c ... Denise Wakeman
Mark Hendricks ... Patsi Krakoff
Mark Joyner ... Yanik Silver
Mike Filsaime ... Ian Herculson
Pat O'Bryan ... Gary Ambrose
Russell Brunson... Frank Kern

All of these entrepreneurs know what they are they are talking about and have a range of products that I have looked at which are second to none. I own something from each of these pretty much and am in the process of putting it all together. I will give you the links as soon as I can

I Don’t Like Mondays…a study in Persistence with a Musical Slant.

By Robin Piggott

Who Ever said I don’t like Mondays must have been on a different Planet? Best day in the week after all that week end guzzling and chilling out! Today here at Astral Towers we have had a real Saddam Hussein of a Monday. Actually all positive…so I am going to share some of the good stuff with you that will definitely make a difference to your Marketing efforts, if you will only learn the meaning of the word Persistence.

Actually it was Bob, sorry Sir Bob Geldof who is known the world over for his remarkable feat in setting Up and Organising Live Aid in1985, who coined the phrase with one of the Boomtown Rats’ hit Singles (are they called singles anymore?) in the late Seventies. Being rather fortunate (very) to be living in Dublin at that time and trying to impress my Wife- to- be with what I considered to be, an Encyclopaedic knowledge of the Music scene by dragging her off to here –a – gig …there-a – gig at every opportunity, it was my main purpose in life to absorb the music scene. Marketing was some way off at this stage although the seeds were being sown.

One of those gigs that turned out to be life changing, became a memory stamped indelibly on the mind …you’ve guessed it, a ‘Rats gig at a small but swish Hotel in Dalkey, Co. Dublin called the Cliff Castle. No longer a Hotel I believe. It was the first time we had seen Bob and the gang and while the audience numbered about 45 souls (!) Bob showed what was to come by the most energetic performance I had seen in 8 years!
Who would have thought a raggle taggle semi –punk Band would give birth to a World Icon? What happened 8 years earlier in 1969?

Well, my first glimpse of Rory Gallagher and Taste at the Round House in London. There is an article published about this remarkable Blues player at a rather well known Directory which shall remain nameless. It is no surprise that success comes with massive, persistent, action, in all walks of life and both these Bands went on to much greater things as a result of complete Dedication and Persistence although the ‘Rats career was rather short lived.

Bob as we all know went onto become one of the Pioneers of the 20th Century and will go down in history as the little guy from suburban Dublin who had a dream and who wouldn’t take no for an answer! He was never afraid to speak his mind even on his first Guest appearances on the Late Late show which became one of the longest running T.V shows in history! Thanks in no small way to Sir Bob and his total non subservience to the Establishment!

Belief in oneself, which is an admirable quality, but painfully difficult to sustain during periods of upheaval in ones life, is the key to success ultimately. Persistence should be the buzzword that you live by, in what ever field you choose to operate in. How can you maintain that persistence when it all seems to be coming down around you? I guess the only way to sustain this much needed momentum, is to become a sponge and soak up every possible idea that you can and learn from the struggles and ultimate success of others .This means taking on board new ideas even if they are contrary to what you previously believed or were aware of. It means spending time with others who have a success mentality and not getting sucked into any level of negativity. It means never giving up until you have succeeded. Failure and sometimes multiple failures are just a rather unpleasant phase you have to go through until you are ready to handle what success will bring.

In the early days of a salesman’s career it is often the last call on a Friday that will give you the success you have been looking for all the week and that will break the feeling of failure. You know…going the extra mile, doing the extra call, making one more appointment. It’s a fantastic and exhilarating feeling to make that last call and make the sale when all you wanted to do is to slink home and wish the week hadn’t happened!

Life will never be the same when you have put into practise the “Extra Mile Technique” a few times and hey presto you find it actually works! Pretty much every successful entrepreneur, in every field, has reached the end of the week without a sale, or the end of the month in debt, at some stage in their lives until the Persistency Button gets activated. Then it’s watch out Success here we come!

Blogging from the Canadian Wilderness!

Doug & Teri Champigny. A Canadian Couple who don’t mess around!

Doug Champigny has a great site, several in fact, that you should subscribe to. The link to his Marketing Domination Newsletter is below along with the others
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http://www.MarketMyDotCom.com

http://www.Super-Bloggers.com

http://www.earning-more-online.com

On signing up you will get the download links to some terrific stuff including the Power Users Guide to becoming A Super Blogger which is an excellent 8 page E-Book to get your Blogging Career under way, Has some very good recommendations in it .

The free stuff covers the subjects below:-

Starting an Online Business:
Guru Magic E-Book:
30 Days To Success:
Fastlane Profits:


Have Fun...I did !!

Article and Blog Writers: Beware the Internet Meanie

Article and Blog Writers: Beware the Internet Meanie
By Jeanette Joy Fisher

Imagine running in cold dry air at 7,000 feet. You suck in the air but you can't get enough. You lie down on the rocky dirt and someone sits on your chest. You can't breathe. You can't stop shaking and you're dry-ice cold.

You most likely know someone who lost a child. I have friends whose daughters died in car accidents. Even though I cried with them, I didn't feel their pain. It's a closed club that only surviving parents know.

Perhaps you lost your grandparent, a parent, or a beloved pet. Nothing compares to the death of your child.

You want to smash things. Not slap - smash big things like table lamps, windows, TVs, computers, and cars.

Instead of sleeping pills and happy pills, I write. Writing became my addiction. But because it's hard to concentrate, I wrote blogs. Keyword blogs on Google's Blogger, like "flipping houses, Design Psychology, home makeovers, fixing houses, selling houses, glorious gardens," and one for my daughter Sara. Some of my posts became articles. Others, like the one about 911 never answering, were not backed up.

I posted many other authors articles on my blogs. I uploaded pictures and cartoons to make the blogs more interesting. Hundreds of people subscribed to my blogs. The high page rank of the blogs helped my websites. I helped my author friends create blogs to promote their websites.

Someone broke into my Blogger Dashboard (control panel) and deleted my blogs. Not only my blogs, but some of my friends that I contributed to. Blogger Support managed to rescue one of thirty.

I can only assume that the person who did this doesn't like what I say about real estate investing. I don't offer expensive mentoring because I'm too busy buying and selling real estate (and writing!). Maybe the anonymous commenter on my article "Building Wealth: Don't Waste Your Money on Real Estate Investment Schemes" is the blog destroyer.

How did this happen? I used the same Blogger Dashboard password on article banks.

With so many anonymous article banks popping up, guard your blogs and important passwords. Take care with your password on article banks.

Joy to you in writing,

Jeanette

Copyright © 2006 Jeanette J. Fisher

I have over thirty websites because my name can be spelled too many ways. Radio hosts get my book titles messed up, so I have variations of "Doghouse to Dollhouse for Dollars: Using Design Psychology to Increase Real Estate Profits." If you're interested in real estate investing, want to sell your home, build your credit to finance your first home or multiple investment properties, makeover your home for happiness, or contact me, visit Jeanette Fisher or http://www.joytothehome.com.

Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Jeanette_Joy_Fisher

Something else!

If you scroll to the bottom of the page you will find the blue box of various ezines that is part of the List Inferno set up that we mentioned yesterday as worth checking out as one of your free list Building services.We have only just started with it (as you can tell!) but I am agreat believer in getting going rather than debating an issue for ever.

I think it is better to make a bad decision ,that you can of course change immediately,than to make no decision at all when it comes to developing a business strategy.

Try something out and if it doesn't live up to expectations within a reasonable period of time then dump it and move on to something else.Sooner or later you will find the winning combination if you persist!

A Few Tid Bits

Here is an insteresting link for those of you tinkering with html.It's an interesting site to browse through for ideas for your formatting:-

HtmlGoodies.Com

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A series of books for Improving your Computer Skills can be found at the Dummies site producing a range for all aspects of Computer use:

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Here's an Author who is in the Guru Category!

Paul McFedries
As President of LOGOPHILIA he has written more than forty books,selling nearly three million copies worldwide.

Take a trip over to his Award winning WebSite and blog for some illumination.
http://www.WordSpy.com



In case you are wondering ? Do I possess The Complete Idiot's Guide to Creating a Web Page & Blog the answer is yes. Have I read it all yet Mmmmmmh. Not quite but then you already knew that! It's a great book for Newbies with some useful free software attached including trial versions of Adobe *GoLive* and Macromedia *Dreamweaver*

Check it out it's only $24.95 or €20.60 or in the Uk it's £12.99 .


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Article Writing is a Winning Strategy when combined with Blogging (part one)

I am sure what I am about to tell you is common knowledge amongst seasoned Internet Marketers and Business Web Site Owners but it takes a lot of hard graft and several years of trial and error to get any business running profitably. During this start – up phase there will be many sleepless nights and not much in the way of free time. However the exponential growth of the Internet has turned traditional Marketing on its head and provided unheard of opportunities for those who have little start up capital.

One of the ways in which your message can reach a wide audience with breakneck speed is the ability to craft informative Articles covering your particular subject and areas of expertise and get them circulating.

A lot has been written about the importance of getting your articles published and circulating widely, in building confidence amongst your readers and subscribers and web site visitors. Establishing your reputation as a trusted expert in your particular field can be built over time with a constant stream of articles and dramatically enhanced when your work is published elsewhere on the Internet, beyond the boundaries of your own web site. Let’s have a brief look at how you would go about this and what sort of results you could reasonably expect.

With the flavour of the Month now firmly resting with the mighty army of Bloggers, it is worth a quick look at how this could impact on your Article writing career. Blogs have taken the Internet by storm because of the ease with which the every day aspiring writer and marketer can now, without any cost whatsoever, set up a Web-Log in half an hour or less! I suppose the most popular Blogging Host is Blogger .Com and provides a reasonable platform to get started. Many Web Hosting companies are providing alternative blogging software with the more traditionally named Word Press.
It is well worth trying out both these software programmes and seeing which suits you better. My own preference is for WordPress but I am using both for several blogs.


In a nutshell, a blog enables the average person to be published instantly and if you are prepared to take the time to learn the tips and tricks you will soon be posting regularly and will then have the impetus to go a couple of clicks up the ladder to composing fully fledged Articles which will stand along side the best out there. This was my chosen route during the last year and the transition from wondering would it work to getting going, was the most difficult.
Having heard about blogs and articles for quite a while during web research it still took the compelling words of a master marketer to light the fire. It is not too difficult to keep that fire burning once you see some results, however small they may be initially .

In my own case the first and very amateurish blog far outperformed the Web site with links in just two months. The Web site had been going for five years, admittedly with not a huge sum spent on its development, but nevertheless it showed what can be achieved with regular posts or mini articles in a very short time Around this time the first articles were published including one that had sat on my hard drive for a year and it is the combination of these two separate strategies that works so well.

The key I was told in the beginning was to post every day if possible and at least three times a week for the first six months, before expecting any results! The results far outweighed the meagre expectations and continue to grow daily. I am not going to tell tales of unimaginable riches at this point since it is very early days but I do believe that the combination of Blogging and Article circulation can make a huge difference to any ones’ web presence given plenty of action and hard work with the pen. Of course this is only one of the many avenues of making a viable business online or offline for that matter.

In part two we will dissect the various strategies that should be employed to make this work smoothly and hopefully persuade those of you out there who are still sitting on the fence to take some action… no correction! Massive Action. Want to know who the Massive Action Master is? You will have to look a little further to the authors’ resource box thingy below and then do some Detective Work. It would be worth your while since one good idea can sometimes change your life!

This article has just been published at Ezine Articles.com and is in two parts. Look out for the real "how to" tomorrow when I am sure those of you who haven't started yet will get some encouragement to get going!

Hope all of you who have visited so far in this our first week will come back and visit again.We are building this site as we go rather than spend months in the dark.There will be updates every day and we hope you will find the resources useful in developing your own strategies on the Web.

Some Early Hiccups

Hi There … we have just noticed that there is some discrepancy between the lay out of the blog on Internet Explorer and the way it is showing in Firefox. Some links are correct in one Browser and not in another. We will be working at it to correct asap.


We are recommending a couple of List Building programmes that were recommended by Doug Champigny of Canada who is a blogging expert. I will be giving you the link to his blogging secrets e- book shortly.
Here are the programmes which could help you over that first hurdle in creating an opt-in list that you can market to.

These Programmes are Free to Join so why not dip your toes?

The List Machine

List Dot Com. created by none other than Mike Filsaime !

List Inferno.

OptIN Storm

Have a great Day!!!!!!!

ONE STOP SHOP FOR NEWBIES?

Here is an introduction to a one stop Shop- Site Network for a good many of your needs in the Search Engine Optimisation; Article Directory scene as you take control of your Web site techie activities.

It’s the Jayde Online Network.

We have been a subscriber to the Web Seo Newsletter for a while now and initially it seemed a little too non-newbie but if you pluck up the courage to read some of their excellent Articles which always have a compelling title (hint), you will find that before long, once your brain has got used to the geek-speak, you will look forward to their newsletter and get some really good tips!

Right now there is a very good, but time limited free download of Web Ceo Softwaretool kit on the main page of their newsletter, it’s well worth looking at since there is a training manual included.
Today’s article, which caught my eye as they always do, is entitled:-

15 Shades of SEO Spam
By Jim Hedger, StepForth News Editor,
http://www.StepForth Placement Inc.
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Jim’s articles are always relevant and easy to read .Today’s article is very useful if you are about to get into the heady world of tackling the various spam issues that face us all and that we might have become embroiled in inadvertently.
Getting involved in Posting to Forums and Blogs can sometimes lead to difficulties.
See my post at the How to Corp Forum yesterday. On that Subject don’t delay in allocating time to scour this forum and begin posting you will find some amazing information there and probably one day someone might view you as a possible Joint Venture Partner stranger things have been known to happen!

In the Newsletter footer you can find all the links to the group of companies including http://www.goarticles.com one of the major Article Directories you should be submitting to.

Another very useful member of their stable is http://www.blogsearch.com where you can search for and add your blog or pick up a feed for a blog of your choice.
Remember having stuff on your hard drive sitting there quietly minding it’s own business just ain’t goin’ to cut it. Take some Actionand I promise you will find that the learning process accelerates and becomes easier on the brain (this tip courtesy of Jim Edwards of http://www.33daystoonlinprofits.com ) who I will dub Action Man!

Have a great day …Robin
http://NetNewbieProfits.blogspot.com
http://astraldrivingschool.blogs.ie

You are not a published writer. So what? Just get going …

It is often said that there is a “book” inside of every person and I’m convinced this is true, but what about articles? Well I don’t believe that we have to aspire to be a Freddie Forsythe, or a J.K.Rowling to put together a collection of Articles that can promote our Web Sites or Blogs.

For someone who is not used to putting pen to paper it can seem a daunting task but once you get stuck in and have your first article published on an Article Directory wow there will be no stopping you.

For sure, getting your article written and formatted and then the tortuous journey through the submission page would make you weep for the first few attempts. Don’t give up…it does get easier the more you write and the more you perfect your techniques. It is still time consuming but then nothing that is worthwhile comes easily …can we agree on that?

What’s the whole big deal about writing articles for your Web Site? Or Blog? And submitting them to the major Directories on the Web? Well there are a number of points to consider.

1. A Web Site needs fresh content on a regular basis. Where are you going get this?

2. It’s not really that feasible to hire a ghost writer when you are starting off since you are unlikely to be able to afford them.

3. Your ideas and expertise are all inside you .How long do you think that it will take you to pass all this onto a paid writer? To get him or her to create your message? It’s no contest. Certainly not until you have created financial stability. Even then I doubt whether the paid writer can produce the insider feelings that you yourself will do. Your own personality will shine through in your writing and if it’s new customers and clients that you are endeavouring to communicate and forge new relationships with, then only you can do that.

4. If you are terrified of the keyboard then you gotta bite the bullet and get some keyboard training. Yes it’s a slog but it will be worth it. Doing my third Computer course six years ago and starting at 8.30 am sharp in front of the PC .was quite a shock to the system but a half hour or so of typing practise with Mavis Beacon every day for several months was enough to dispel the fear and give me a few words per minute that even impressed my impatient teenage daughters. You can do the same!

5. Later when you are successful, or at least on the way, you could leverage your valuable time by hiring a copywriter if it’s hard hitting sales copy you are after. I personally would prefer to spend valuable resources on being trained, to produce my own magnetic copy rather than have someone write copy that I put my name to.

6. Later when your apprenticeship is over it will be nothing short of a breeze to crank out excellent persuasive copy and information to your readers, clients or web site visitors.

7. Directories play a big part in the “GETTING YOURSELF KNOWN” process and this is where the Newbie Author has the same resources available to him or her as the experts that have been doing it for years. There are literally hundreds of them on the Internet and quite a number of really large and successful ones that you should consider. EzineArticles are perhaps the best known and growing really fast with about 15,000 authors worldwide; GoArticles are another worth submitting to.

8. You are special and very Unique and have a priceless fountain of Life experience and many areas of expertise in which you excel! Don’t doubt that for a moment. It is precisely these vast Rivers of Knowledge and specialist skills that you possess, that will provide you with a never ending stream of ideas for your Articles. Your Web Site and Blog visitors are looking for what they don’t have currently have but what you yourself definitely do! What’s that?…your status as an expert in your particular field.

9. We all know that the birth and explosion of the Internet has perhaps been the most staggering advance in the area of Communication, Education, Information and Knowledge the World has ever seen. Everyone is thirsty for information and if you have just what the person is looking for, then they very often will gladly pay for it. Which is where you come in?

10. O.K. here you are with a mountain of expertise that you want to share with your fellow travellers and until now it is perhaps only the very well connected and educated and of course Persistent that made the breakthrough to Success, Fame and dare I say it? Fortune! Fortune Fame and Success mean vastly different things to different people. Perhaps it might come as a surprise that the struggle through life that most people endure really doesn’t get any easier, just because you get older and wiser? Unless You Yourself make it happen by first creeping and then gathering speed out of your comfort(or discomfort) zone, and getting plenty of advice along the way, nothing is going to change.

11. Get yourself educated into the ways of the Web and that takes a lot of time in front of the screen, and you will then have the confidence to dip your toes into the icy water and nothing will ever be the same again. We haven’t talked about all the benefits of getting your Articles Published online that’s for the next Article.



12. Do it now, right away get that first Article written and published? You can only find out to what heights you can soar if you Spread Your Wings. A bit like the fledgling leaving the nest for the first time and if you are an Eagle that is one helluva way down to the ground! So what to do? Take a deep breath, close your eyes for a moment and imagine yourself on the Podium and voila it’s just like Orville and Wilbur at KittyHawk all those years ago. Where would we all be today without those two Pioneers?

So be a Pioneer in your own chosen field and fly with the Eagles!


Robin Piggott is passionate about many things in life but is happiest now in front of his PC cranking out his next Article on Life skills and how to get going as an Internet Newbie, which he shares freely with his Web Site and Blog visitors
http://www.astralmotoring.ie
http://astraldrivingschool.blogs.ie
The MotorVAting Blog and Web site of Astral Driving School Limerick Ireland
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Can an Ezine help your business?

Most, if not all of today’s household names in the Internet Marketing Scene have benefited from setting up their Ezines because with ease of delivery via e-mail it was very possible with some skilful marketing to build a large subscriber list that could be very viable.

We have all heard the phrase “the money is in the list” and it still remains true but with the march of Technology e-mail contacts have been under pressure from spam filters so it is not quite as effective as it was. However an Ezine viewed on-line by way of a blog and the new rss technology is a major advance and this is the route that Marketers are now more comfortable with.

One of the most dynamic and successful of ezine marketers is the effervescent Alexandria.K.Brown of Del Ray California whose
StraightShooter Ezine is one of the best.
She has over four or five years developed a stable of products and services to help the newbie Web Site owner get a strong grip on the concepts needed for success on-line. It is published weekly and in a very entertaining format with plenty of resources and of course her full stable of products.

The Ezine Queen’s flagship product is her ” Boost your Business with your own Ezine” Course which is an in depth, stage by stage programme. There are numerous other products all endorsed by some heavyweight entrepreneurs including Audio classes in hiring a Virtual Assistant and Marketing and Motivation Mastermind Class. Her upcoming Seminar in March is already well under way to selling out and follows her sell out gig last year!

Any budding Web Marketer who wants a full valued, straight from the hip boost in sales and revenues would do well to check Ali out. She is a superb Marketer as the testimonials will indicate. Go visit Ezine Queen.com and give yourself a straight- up shot of marketing magic.

We are reprinting the first part of Ali’s article ……;-

Your Traffic Building Checklist:
15 Ways to Get More Visitors Who Are Ready to Buy (PART 1 OF 2)
By Alexandria K. Brown, "The E-zine Queen"

[NOTE: Some words in this article have been disguised to avoid triggering sp^m filters.]

Many of my clients share that one of their biggest online marketing challenges is getting enough visitors to their site. Attracting traffic isn't a cut and dry process - there isn't one perfect way to do it. But there are many ways that, when used collaboratively, will build you a nice stream of visitors.

To get your marketing wheels turning, check out these 15 simple ways to attract new visitors to your site. This is not an exhaustive list by any means, but it will give you several fresh ideas to try.

Now, remember - you don't want to expel effort in getting just anyone to visit your site. You only want people who would likely be interested in what you have to offer. So before you read on, answer this question:

"WHO are your target clients or customers?"

The more you know about your ideal clients/customers, the better you'll know where and how to find them.

So ... keep that information in mind as you consider these traffic-building tactics:

___ 1. Sea*rch Eng*ines and Directories

Why not be in front of people who are actually searching for your product or service? Get your site listed in the top sea*rch eng*ines by either learning about this topic on your own or investing in assistance. Because there is A LOT to learn and the rules keep changing all the time, this is an area I advise you get some help in or hire it out. (I recommend my friend Marc Harty at Sea*rch Eng*ine Patrol.)

___ 2. Pay-per-Click Advertising

Services such as Google AdWords let you bid on how much you'd like to pay per click, and many times your listings appear above the regular listings in the major sea*rch eng*ines. AND you can get listed in as little as 15 minutes! To learn more, get my friend Cat Seda's step-by-step course, "Search Marketing Mastery".

___ 3. Your Own E-zine

If you publish your own e-zine, you already have a warm pool of prospects who are likely interested in what you have to offer. Give them a reason to visit (or re-visit) your site by adding new content, giving away a free report or e-book, or offering a special subscriber-only promotion on your products and services. To learn more about publishing your own e-zine, get my award-winning course, "Boost Business With Your Own Ezine".

___ 4. Your Articles in Other E-zines and at Other Web Sites

This has been one of my most successful traffic-building tactics. There are thousands of online publishers who would like to use YOUR articles in their e-zines and on their Web sites! Find them via the Directory of E-zines and also post your articles at free content sites like EzineArticles.com.

___ 5. Ads in Other E-zines

Identify other e-zines whose readership matches your target market. Search the Directory of E-zines and the Web. Find out if the e-zines accept advertising and learn what their rates are. Run at least three ads in a row to get an accurate representation of how the ad pulls. (Use an ad-tracking program to determine how many clicks each ad is getting, such as the one I use that comes with my shopping cart system.

___ 6. Ads on Other Web Sites

Research other Web sites where your target market visits and inquire about advertising. Have ready both text ads and colorful banner ads of the standard sizes.

___ 7. Online Forums and Discussion Groups

Identify popular forums and discussion groups that are related to your subject area and where prospects in your target market may be lurking. You'll find more than you ever knew existed just by doing a few online searches. Let your value shine through in your postings, and include a link to your Web site.

TO BE CONTINUED ... Catch Part 2 in Our Next Issue!

© 2003-2006 Alexandria K. Brown

WANT TO SEE MORE ARTICLES LIKE THIS ONE?
See Alexandria's Small Business Marketing Blog.

Online entrepreneur Alexandria K. Brown, "The E-zine Queen," publishes the award-winning 'Straight Shooter Marketing' weekly ezine with 17,000+ subscribers. If you're ready to jump-start your marketing, make more money, and have more fun in your small business, get your FREE tips now at www.EzineQueen.com

Article Writing is a Winning Strategy

By Robin Piggott



A few brief comments on the importance of creating your Presence on the Internet.

A lot has been written about the importance of getting your articles published, in building confidence amongst your readers and subscribers. Your reputation as an expert in your particular field can be built over time with a constant stream of articles.

(1) These can be published on your Web Site with perhaps a sign-up required to access the full library.

(2) They should be submitted to as many Article Directories as you can find. I guess that for a Newbie Author perhaps ten or twenty of the top Directories.


(3) Submitting manually is certainly a chore and they do not all have exactly the same submission systems which often leads to one false click deleting your handiwork until you are very familiar.

(4) A major Article can be turned into several blog posts with some variation of the copy.


(5) Blog Posts that are done on the spur of the moment will often give you an idea for an article or series of Articles.

(6) Once you get over the Newbie paralysis syndrome you will be surprised how quickly the ideas come. So you need to create a neat folder or workbook to write down these ideas and then categorise them for your future writing.

(7) It should be possible for someone to create at least three or four Articles a week or more once you get moving ...momentum is a great force of Nature.

(8) Once you have submitted your Articles and they have been accepted you should make a point of doing plenty of keyword/phrase searches and you will be amazed how quickly your article and name will start appearing in these places.

(9) One of our Articles that was not written from a search engine perspective but by chance had in it’s title, some very often used Key words is now showing up in the number one position on a page of 38,000,000 entries .The Article Directory and its high search engine ranking led to this. So if you can do it once by accident you can surely do it over and over again by Design!

(10) One of the encouraging aspects of getting into a very regular Article groove is that other Web Masters and Site owners will , if they like what you have to say and it is in demand by their viewers, publish you on their site The advantage of this is that your Authors’ resource box will be visible with usually two live links to your Web Site or Blog.You can see the general idea below in my own resource box.You get a chance to tell your reader a little about yourself and hopefully entice them to visit your site or blog. You can ring the changes to your resource depending on the particular context of your article or the product or service you are promoting.

We will expand on this technique as time goes on but in the meantime take a trip over to the Webs’ Leading Article Directory http://www.ezinearticles.com and see how it all works. That will be an hour very well spent.

Robin Piggott has spent most of his Career in Sales and Marketing with a considerable time behind the wheel. His internet experience spans six years and is now working on expanding his Professional Driving School through the Internet in addition to getting invoved in the Blogosphere.

http://astralmotoring.blogspot.com
http://astraldrivingschool.blogs.ie

http://www.astralmotoring.ie

The Night of the Blitz

There is a very innovative programme in its early days which is well worth signing up for. The FeedBlitz organisation will get you rolling with syndicated feeds (whatever that is?)and it's very simple to get the code for your website or Blog and give you an instant sign-up form.

Here is the blink I mean link...it has to be one of the easiest add-ons for any Newbie and should give your site a professional slant. Try it out... I don't think you will be disappointed. This is what the code looks like:

Enter your Email





Powered by FeedBlitz

http://www.feedblitz.com

Ezine Queen Rides off into the Sunset

Alexandria K.Brown, otherwise known as The Ezine Queen is off on her holidays to the Sunny Caribbean.Clearly getting her Tan in place prior to her Seminar in March. We are reprinting her Article from her Straight-Shooter Ezine for your benefit today. Her weekly Ezine is always a good read and She is one of the Prime Contenders in the battle for Ezine Dominance.

All her links are below ...go take a good long look and sign up for what will be a memorable experience. Her article today is about traffic Building Principles:-

Your Traffic Building Checklist:
15 Ways to Get More Visitors Who Are Ready to Buy (PART 2 OF 2)
By Alexandria K. Brown, "The E-zine Queen"

[NOTE: Some words in this article have been disguised to avoid triggering sp^m filters.]

___ 8. Recommendations by E-zine Publishers

Do you know anyone who publishes an e-zine for the same target market as yours? If you're not direct competitors, ask her about cross-promoting each other. Example: When my friend Wendy Weiss, "The Queen of Cold Calling," and I both launched our e-zines five years ago, I gave a two-paragraph recommendation for her site in my own e-zine, and she returned the favor by doing the same for me. That one exchange resulted in hundreds of new visitors (and subscribers) for each of us!

___ 9. Recommendations by Other Site Owners

Same idea as #8. Many sites offer a "recommended resources" page, so why not get listed on them? Find sites whose target market matches yours and ask if they'd recommend your site. You'll get more yeses if you offer to list them on your site as well. (And especially also if you also offer commissions on sales! See #10.)

___ 10. Affiliate Programs

Grow your own sales force by offering a handsome commission on your products and services. While this requires you to give away some profits on those sales, they're sales you would not have had otherwise. Right now almost HALF of my sales come from traffic sent to my site by my affiliates. Best of all, you can track and pay your affiliates automatically using programs like QueenCart.com (1ShoppingCart), which also handles all your sales and customer database at the same time.

___ 11. Your E-mail Sig File

You're probably familiar with e-mail signature (or "sig") files -- they're the few lines of contact information that many of us put at the bottom of every e-mail we send. Add a few additional lines to your sig file that give us a reason to visit your site. Perhaps you're having a special sale now or you're giving away a free report, e-book, or e-zine subscription. Remember, e-mails get forwarded around all the time, so take advantage of this free exposure. (For more tips on sig files, see my article "Make Your E-mail Sig File Work for You.")

___ 12. Exposure in Print, Radio, and TV

You can drive hundreds or even thousands of new visitors to your site with the right media exposure. Again, no matter how great your interview or article is, people need a kick in the pants to visit your site. So give them something free that they have to come GET at your site. For help in generating publicity at $0 cost to you, check out veteran broadcaster George McKenzie's books and courses.

___ 13. Speaking to Groups

Nothing leaves more of an impact on people than an in-person presentation. At each appearance, collect your participants' e-mail addresses by offering something free (your free report, e-book, or e-zine subscription). The day after the event, send them a reminder to visit your site to pick up their free gift! My friend Tom Antion offers tons of advice and resources on speaking for exposure and profit.

___ 14. Postcard Mailings

One of the most overlooked tactics in today's marketing world is the humble postcard. Postcards are a fast, easy, and reliable way to generate leads and increase visitors to your site. Best of all, they're the ideal way to break through the online clutter by going offline! I use and love ModernPostcard.com.

___ 15. Sheer Shamelessness

If you lived in the Los Angeles area a few years ago, there's a good chance you saw "EzineQueen.com" whiz by you at speeds in excess of 70 m.p.h. Why? It was emblazoned across the back of my black SUV in large, lime-green letters! At least once a week I got a friendly e-mail from someone who saw my giant URL and, out of curiosity, visited my site. A few of them even turned into customers. Lesson learned? Think out of the box! For help in this area, see Debbie Allen's "Confessions of Shameless..." series. (I'm featured in both the Shameless Internet Promoters and Shameless Dating versions!)

(c) 2003-2006 Alexandria K. Brown

WANT TO SEE MORE ARTICLES LIKE THIS ONE?
See Alexandria's Small Business Marketing Blog.

Online entrepreneur Alexandria K. Brown, "The E-zine Queen," publishes the award-winning 'Straight Shooter Marketing' weekly ezine with 18,000+ subscribers. If you're ready to jump-start your marketing, make more money, and have more fun in your small business, get your FREE tips now at www.EzineQueen.com

WHO IS JASON MANGRUM?

This morning's post is an Article written by none other than Jason Mangrum?
well that's all fine and rosy but who the heck is Jason Mangrum you might ask?

Every day we are bombarded by tales of Fame and Fortune and Success on the Internet and a lot of it is true; quite a lot, as you will find out, is NOT!

I first became aware of Jason two years ago when, after stumbling upon my first Copywriting Expert web sites,(hint!) far too many to list here (lol) his name came up and probably after a while I signed up for his newsletter.

To put you out of your misery, that first eye opening and Magnetic Website was none other than Mr.Fire.com authored by a joe-vial Author by the name of Joe,appropriately enough.Imagine my surprise to find out that someone could be SO famous and in demand that all they had to do was use an outrageously short Domain Name that conjured up visions of Sword Swallowers,Fire Eaters and a Circus Act. Strange but True!

So here we were at Mr Fire's Website (far too short a name to be bothered with really, but what the hell you can always click the back button!) and the rest, as they say is(no not history) but Hypnotic and Spellbinding. I guess at this stage you are none the wiser?

Joe, otherwise known as MR Fire or more correctly as Dr.Joe Vitale, is one of the Internet's best loved Authors and Marketing experts.If you absolutely hate Harry Potter and who doesn,t then you will Love Joe Vitale.He recently toppled Harry off the Best Seller List at Amazon with his then latest offering. That's got to be a Testimonial and a Half! The Book ...well it,s far too uninteresting for me to list here ..get off your Butts and go check it out for yourself at Joe's site.

Jason Mangrum worked closely with Joe and has built his own Internet presence which you can check out through the links in this copy.

My thought for the Day.."Of course you can succeed, you have the same 24 hours in the Day that everyone else has you just have to put it to Good Use. ie some, no, A Lot of Hard Work!"

(c)RCP 2001-2006.

Here is the Article by Jason.. you perhaps may find some of it a little too fast or Internet- Techie as a newbie, hell I have only just reached stage 2 in Newbie College myself, but believe me with a lot of days and nights in front of the little screen the mist will start to clear and you will finally get into second gear..Enjoy the read and do look up Jason and Joe you could do no better than to start your Internet Career here:-
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"Web Traffic Techniques You Can Use Right Now for 2006!"
By Jason Mangrum, Author The Instant Traffic Formula 2006
http://www.InstantTrafficFormula.com

As you probably know, getting web traffic to your site is one of the three most crucial components to making any money online. In Mark Joyner's Internet Intelligence Manuscript (Volume II) he clearly explains how any web traffic (not just "targeted traffic") can be made profitable, by mentally framing, or conditioning your visitors to become receptible to your offer.

One of the easiest ways to mentally re-frame your visitors upon entry to your site, is to walk them through a three-step process that:

A) Grabs their immediate attention with a promise of benefit
B) Pre-Qualifies them before they get to your sales letter
C) Follows up with them over time with new content and reminders of your offer

Keep in mind, web traffic is just one component of the three required to sustain sales.

The other two are:

1. Testing new advertising campaigns and ad copy
2. Tracking and keeping records of your results from each campaign

Here's an example case study of the three-step process...

On December 16th 2005, my book "The Instant Traffic Formula 2006" was released to teach internet entreprenuers how to create, attract and monetize responsive web traffic to any web site or affiliate program. As of today, my web site at www.InstantTrafficFormula.com (which uses the exact techniques taught in the book) is averaging a 64.86% visitor-to-lead conversion, and an average sales conversion ranging from 4.69% up to 11.36% all-around (from the redirect = no followups), which is currently netting me just over $1.48 per unique visitor to my site.

Again, these statistics do not take follow-ups into account. These are "straight-out-of-the-gate" type sales that occur within minutes of my visitors signing up to read my sales letter.

And you can do this too.

I follow a simple formula to create web traffic, qualified leads, responsive subscribers, loyal customers and even active affiliates who promote anything and everything I sell online.

You can sum up the entire formula into the three major components I mentioned above, and create a fail-proof success system for your products, services and affiliate programs. After you've activated the formula, the best way to keep the momentum of traffic, leads and sales coming in on a consistent and even predictable basis, is in three words...

What those three words are, and how to use them by combining eight other powerful elements is carefully documented inside my book. But here's the process I used personally on my site:

1. My visitor is directed through a tracking link (or affiliate link) to a lead capture page called a "Name Squeeze" where prospects give their contact information in order to get details of my report.

2. Upon submitting their contact information, they are immediately directed to my sales page for the details, and offer for the Instant Traffic Formula Scientific Marketing Report.

3. My follow-up autoresponder system immediately sends them an email reminding them of my offer, giving a few testimonials of the report and sends them a link to check it out at another time. A few days later, they receive reminders of my offer, more quality feedback of my report, new articles and content about getting web traffic, and again - links back to my sales letter.

The lead capture page serves to "pre-qualify" visitors who actually want to read my sales letter to find out more about my offer. I've heard a lot of people claim many visitors (and sales) can be lost by forcing your prospects to "do something" before they get to your offer -- but my direct experimentation and results show the majority (64.86%) of visitors who hit my site, sign up.

Once my visitors sign up, they become leads and are set into my autoresponder system to receive consistent follow-ups until they buy, or unsubscribe. Thankfully, the autoresponder service I use (Aweber) allows me to easily direct my new subscribers to a custom "Thank You" page. Most web marketers still use the "default" thank you page and their subscribers are returned to a "thanks for subscribing - now close the window" type message. Useless.

My thank you page re-directs to a tested sales letter that continues the mental conditioning process by giving in-direct answers to questions that were created in the mind of my prospects upon reading, and signing up from my Name Squeeze.

Now that my three elements are together, I combine them with "CII" or the three most powerful words in all of marketing, and achieve phenomenal and consistent results over time.

Using just this part of the formula alone, can cause a massive shift in your bottom line. However, when the complete formula is both discovered and activated, you'll have a direct funnel to bring money "out of thin air" to you whenever you like, and for whatever you want.

Do this. Think of something you'd like to have.

Anything. It can be anything. Don't limit yourself.

A new car, a new house, a nice expensive necklace for a loved one -- anything.

Now put a price on it.

That's your goal. Your intention.

Write it down.

Next, get out a calculator and punch in the price of what you want.

Divide that number by the price for whatever item you want to sell.

Round up to the nearest whole number, and you've got a definite number.

This number equals the amount of sales you'll need to get your wish.

Now use the formula described in this article, and funnel the correct amount of sales into your business, by getting the traffic, pre-qualifying them, and going for the sale using CII to guide you along every step of the way -- until you reach your desired number of sales.

Once the sales you've accumulated equal your desired amount, you get your wish.

Try it for yourself and see the power in this technique to create anything you want.

Above all, stay focused... keep the momentum... and enjoy your prosperity in the new year!

Jason Mangrum is known to internet entreprenuers as both "The Marketing Machine" and "The Marketing Mad Scientist." His newly-released Instant Traffic Formula 2006 divulges a complete, scientific marketing formula that brings web traffic, leads, subscribers and sales to any product, service or affiliate program. More information and details about the book can be found on his site, at: http://www.InstantTrafficFormula.com

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Source Code Goldmine Blow-Out..selling out Fast!

Jeremy Burns latest Offering for those wishing to get a head Start in the World of Re sell and Private Label Rights

Grab Private Label Rights To 10 Hot New Products - This Week Only! Hurry, Jeremy Burns is only selling 500 copies of this incredible package, plus the price is going up by $50 bucks every few days so grab this Source Code now!! "10 PL Rights Products!" www.SourceCodeGoldMine.com CLICK HERE NOW FOR ALL THE DETAILS

To Buy or Not to Buy

Another Article by Jim Edwards on your Buying Skills



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How To Buy Online Without Getting Ripped Off

- by Jim Edwards

© Jim Edwards - All Rights reserved
http://www.thenetreporter.com-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

I frequently get similar questions from viewers and
subscribers all over the world.

They often ask me "Jim, what do you think of So-and-So's
product?" or "How does So-and-So's product compare to your
product?" or "Should I buy So-and-So's product?"

Typically these questions are about physical products,
software or information products.

People ask for my opinion not only because I write a
newspaper column, but also because I've produced and sold
tens-of-thousands of products to people all around the world
for the past nine years.

Bottom line: people want a clear, concise "yardstick"
against which to measure any online purchase so they never
feel ripped off.

Let me say right up front that I believe 100% in free-market
competition and that having multiple products and
perspectives on the same topic ultimately improves any
marketplace for everyone.

I thank the Firefox browser and Linux operating system for
getting Microsoft off its gigantic backside and addressing
some serious issues.

But, with so many new products coming to market online,
everyone must operate with a simple, effective criteria for
evaluating any offer, especially in the business arena.

Let me offer you the exact same 2-part benchmark I use to
evaluate any business offering that crosses my desktop.

This will help you avoid getting caught up in the "hysteria"
of the moment and buying on impulse, rather than on careful
thought.

Part #1 - I ask myself this question: Do I really need this
in my business or is this just something "new" for the sake
of something new?

If I realize that I'm just getting sucked into the "try
something new" mentality, I put the purchase on hold for 48
hours to "cool off."

If I honestly decide I need the product, then I move on to
part 2.

Par #2 - I ask myself this question: Has the person selling
me this software, product or course actually DONE (more than
once) what they are selling me "how to" do - and can they
prove it?

If someone sells a piece of software, I want to know how
much time it saved, how much money it saved, how much effort
it helped avoid, and how much money was made as a result of
using it - and I want proof!

Let me simply repeat the mantra of the classic Wendy's
commercial from the 1980's: "Where's the beef?"

If someone tries to sell you a piece of software that claims
to get 10,000 visitors to your site, ask to see screen shots
of their server logs and sales in their merchant account.

If someone tries to sell you a course on creating website
video, ask how many money-making videos they've put online
over the years (ask for specific URLs) and run like heck if
their personal website doesn't have the first video on it
(or if they just put one up this week)!

You'll never go wrong if, before you buy anything online,
you demand concrete, demonstrable proof that lives up to the
claims made by the person or company selling it.

In the immortal words of Ronald Reagan, "Trust but verify!"

--
Jim Edwards is a syndicated newspaper columnist and the
creator of an amazing course that will teach you step-by-
step and click-by-click how to finally create your own
money-making mini-sites...

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Gotham City Press Release......

Gotham City Press Release: Batmobile gets new Driver as Robin passes his BatmoTest first Time.

{FIRSTNAME =otherwise known as Customer , Reader}, Holy Private Label Goldmine Batman?


Hi there ..couldn't resist this email so before the Marketing Blog is set up (today hopefully ) I am just going to do a bit of experim-I-nting. A new programme by one of the Internets' top Gurus was released last Friday ...There are only a few slots left why don't you check it out if you have any interest at all in what is going on behind the scenes...

That's what Robin(that's me!) would say to Batman when saw the 10 incredible products that all come with PL Rights that Jeremy Burns is blowing out starting Friday. (last Friday!)
I am going to shower you with bribes & gifts 1st thing Friday morning...

Why you ask :-)

Well you can blame it on Jeremy....

This Friday (just passed)he will be launching Source Code Gold Mine.

If you saw the last time he did a sale like this then you already know what this means...

If you didn't see it last time, then you you will want to see what this is all about by going right now to:
http://sourcecodegoldmine.com

The reason I am letting you know about a sale that does not even start until Friday (it already did)that is last Friday not next Friday( Phew... these time zones are tricky suckers!)) is because I wanted to make sure you wait for my email before you pick it up!

You see I am going to be piling an absolutely "Sickening" amount of bonuses on you - if you pick up this incredible package through my link!

So wait for my email on Friday morning(it's not written yet !)- I promise you will be kicking yourself if you let this through anyone other then me!

Best Regards,
Robin Piggott

PS. You won't believe what I have planned to bribe you with!

Go To==Sourcecodegoldmine!

Setting up your Free Blog

Setting up your Very Own Free Blog...it's a cinch...just read the Article below by Jim Edwards; grab yourself a coffee and get going ...What's keeping you?

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Set Up Your Own Blog Free

- by Jim Edwards

© Jim Edwards - All Rights reserved
http://www.thenetreporter.com
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I've received a lot of email lately from people asking how
they can set up their own blogs for family, friends, or
business purposes without spending much money or hiring an
expensive programmer or web developer.

Well, ask no more because I will now show you exactly how to
get your own blog without dipping too far into your own
pocket (if at all) and get up and running, even if you don't
have your own website, hosting account, or domain name.

You basically get two choices when it comes to setting up a
blog: host it yourself, or use a service that hosts the blog
for you.

Each one carries advantages based on your level of skill,
experience and how many options you want to add to your
blog.

If you choose to host your blog on your own website, then
you can pick from a number of different options, including
MoveableType.org and WordPress.org.

However, if you don't want to host it yourself, you can also
go to Yahoo.com, put in the term "free blog" and obtain a
long list of services that will host a blog for you, either
free of charge or for a fee.

Probably the best-known free blog service resides at
Blogger.com

Recently purchased by Google, Blogger boasts thousands of
blogs on topics ranging from ecommerce to pet manners.

Blogger enables you to set up a functional blog in about 5
minutes and start posting your thoughts, rants, or family
facts with the world.

Log on to http://Spaces.MSN.com and find another free option
offered by Microsoft's online service, MSN.

This service makes it a bit easier to share photos than
Blogger, which requires a separate software tool called
Picasa (also available from Google for free).

MSN's blogger service also seems to appeal more to
individuals sharing their thoughts than to businesses trying
to scare up new customers or get their links crawled by
search engine spiders (another advantage of publishing a
blog).

So if you're publishing the family blog, this one might
offer more of the user-friendly options you need.

The one drawback to using free services always comes back to
the age-old saying, "You get what you pay for!"

These free blog services come with virtually zero customer
support, so if you can't figure it out on your own, good
luck finding anyone to assist you.

If you don't mind paying $5 a month, you can get a full-
featured weblog at TypePad.com that offers a decent level of
customer support.

The blogs available here offer many more features than
Blogger or MSN, but also require you to understand a bit
more about blogging's more advanced features like "trackback
links" and "pinging" blog directories to let them know
you've updated your blog (so others can come take a look at
your new material).

Regardless of whether you choose the free or paid option,
using a hosted blogging solution rates best when getting
started.

However, once your blog really starts to take off and you
find you need more "bells and whistles," you may want to
consider upgrading to a more sophisticated blogging
solution.

For a free video that explains "trackbacks" and more,
check out:

=> http://www.igottatellyou.com/trackback.html

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The Success of your Web Site with King Content.

An Article By Robin Piggott (C) Astral Article Authors 2005-2006

A guide for Newbies to get under the Radar of the ever increasing mountain of technophobia that faces a Web site owner starting off.
There is of course a huge amount to learn in setting up and running a Web Site, which is why, I believe, that most newcomers tend to put their trust in a web designer, aka webmaster and leave them to get on with things hoping that all will go well. Big Mistake!

It’s only when, having spent quite a lot of money, you find out that your pride and joy is not giving you the results that you imagined, that alarm bells can start to ring. In my own case this took approximately four years to sink in. After a promising start, with some enquiries from the other side of the world, things not only didn’t get any better but got worse!

Of course, if you are running and developing a new business, which takes a colossal amount of time and commitment, you don’t initially have time to worry too much about the success of your web site. After all, a web site will make you a zillionaire quicker than you can spell the long version of SEO! Big Mistake!

I believe it is just as important to designate sufficient time to understanding how a web site is developed, promoted and maintained as it is to spend time on all the other many facets of a fledgling business.

Many new business owners, myself included, thought in the past that just by having a web site and on-line presence AND a webmaster, that everything would be fine. Visitors and sales would surely follow and increase exponentially. Not So!

Probably the pace of change on-line is more rapid than most businesses realise and therefore if you are going to build a site AND do some reasonable level of commerce from it, you have got to study and learn a number of basics.


1. Key word research should really begin before you set about building your site, because it can help with the choice of a suitable Domain name and continue to assist in the titles and scope of your eventual articles.

2. Original and fresh content related to your prospective field is a necessity, and needs to be uploaded on a very regular basis. Unless you are a very large company with an in-house webmaster, this is probably the most crucial aspect of developing a site in terms of getting good search engine results.


3. Writing new pages can be extremely time consuming and unless you have a suitable S.M.S. package installed, enabling you to become your own webmaster, it’s highly likely you will commence the slow but inexorable slide to oblivion, other wise known as Zero traffic.

4. Build your site with help by all means but make sure that you become your own webmaster ultimately, having taken a crash course in the do’s and don’ts. You absolutely must have the facility to control what goes on within your site. If you miss out on this vital aspect of developing a site, the chances are that you will lose interest and stop creating ideas and content.

5. Learning to write your content, even if this seems a bit beyond your reach to begin with is another essential skill to be fine tuned and believe me, once you have got under way it will become easier with each passing day. Looking at how other web sites operate and the standard of their content will help you along the path.

6. Articles on your area of expertise, submitted to a number of reputable Directories, will almost immediately get you noticed and start to build credibility. These can be modified for use as web pages and will provide ideas for new content on a never ending basis. It has been my experience in the recent past that articles can have a very advantageous effect on search engine results. Credibility is something you can never have too much of.


7. Search engine optimization, a very fancy term, with nearly as many, so called, experts as there are sites on the Web and similar in number to the droves of Web site designers! This is a thorny topic and one best left to the experts, for the behind the scenes work. However, it is my belief that the best results come from fresh and original content put up on your site on a regular basis. Results from my blog of only two months existence, in terms of link popularity, are outstripping my web site that has been on-line for five years. This is all down to regular articles on my chosen topic.

8. A newsletter or ezine, is a very good way of encouraging traffic to your site and building your subscriber list that you can eventually turn into clients, customers and sales. Offering an incentive for your visitors to part with their e-mail address can be by way of a free mini course or e book.. In the case of your newly published E-Book, offering a free download of one complete chapter is something worth considering and is a very popular technique. This is all part of the credibility building process. Once you get used to making regular posts to your newly set up Blog, a newsletter should be relatively easy to produce, without too much stress.

9. A Business Blog is I think, the way forward, for many web site owners who would like to see an increase in traffic of a targeted nature. They are easy to set up and have the advantage of being virtually instant. One of the great things that can help you in becoming more adept as a webmaster, utilising your own blog, is that learning the rudiments of html is not the nightmare that it may appear to be. You can practise away to your heart’s content adding and subtracting code from a blog post and see immediately the result in the preview pane. You don’t even need to publish this post. Again, getting used to viewing the source code of other web sites and seeing how they do things will give you no end of inspiration.
of weeks, with a little effort!



10. Control is the key to success in developing your skill as a webmaster. In a follow–up article on the experiences of a complete Blog novice we will have a look at some of the more interesting facts, figures, and activities that will take you where you want to go, and contribute to the success of your web site, providing you are prepared to allocate sufficient computer time
and are not expecting to retire a millionaire in six months!

It is, however, an achievable goal to go from a complete Newbie to someone who has some idea of where he or she is going in just a couple of weeks.


This Article was first published on the Web's main Article Directory ...Ezine Articles.Com in the Summer of 2005

Getting Started with Internet Marketing

Welcome to the NetNewbieProfits Blog.

As you might imagine this is(1) A Blog (2) A Blog for Newbies and (3) A collection of valuable Ways to make a profit without losing too much sleep or spending too much boodle.

Now that's out of the Way we can get on with the serious stuff of looking at how you get going... how you keep going... and when the chips are down how you motivate yourself to create all you are capable of...and that of course ultimately means INCOME.

We are going to give you some good and relatively simple ideas that can be implemented immediately and will in time build your Business.
Before you have a Buisness you must have a Plan, a Dream, and a Computer with Internet Connection and some Goals which must be written down.

You are probably saying to yourself right now who is this Guy and what gives him the right to lecture me? Well this is no lecture this is the real world where dog eats dog or (cat as the case may be)and you have to get off your Butt every day and get things done.

"Better to make a Bad Decision and then change it for a Better one than make no Decision at All"

It is common knowledge that the person who takes action ...Massive Action.. will always out run the better Qualified or Educated person who just sits and Dreams.


Here's the First Lesson that you would do well to type up and hang on your office wall, put on a 6+4 card and carry with you at all times.

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Nothing in the World can take the Place of Persistence. Talent will not;nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with Talent.Genius will not; unrewarded Genius is almost a proverb.Education will not;the World is full of educated derelicts.
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.The slogan "Press On" ha ssolved and always will solve the problems of the Human Race.

Calvin Coolidge.American President


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Item Number One..Day One.
Learn about Blogging and set up your first Blog..it's not that difficult or time consuming .I will let you into a secret here..One of the Internet's most entertaining(you have to have fun ) and successful Entrepreneurs Jim Edwards of "I gotta tell you Blog.com got me started by repeatedly emphasing the "Do it Now" mind set and "Take Massive Action".Thinking and dreaming will just not cut it.
How do I do it..well just go to Blogger.com and follow the instructions.


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Here is an Article by the Amazing Jim Edwards (the last of 2005)Tuition (and some good fun as well).If there is one person I would recommend that a newbie should check out and become aquainted with it is Jim. I know I am one of thousands who have benefitted from his enthusiasm, his humour and his straight - up expertise,not to mention his wonderful portfolio of products, books and software...all of which are more than good value..They Rock ..to use a well worn cliche.

Online Video Predictions For 2006

- by Jim Edwards

© Jim Edwards - All Rights reserved
http://www.thenetreporter.com
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About this time every year I make a few predictions about
what will rate "HOT" for the coming year in the online
world. Last year, among other things, online audio topped my
list for 2005.

This year, 2006, I see full-motion online video as the
"killer app" to revolutionize website communications and
ecommerce.

Bottom line: with a digital camcorder and some basic
software, you can transform your website into the Home
Shopping Network, and with distribution tools like
Video.Google.com and video Podcasting on Apple's iTunes, you
can broadcast to the masses just like CNN.

Several major changes in 2005 set the stage for full-motion
video online.

These include faster, cheaper computers, improved video
creation and conversion software, and widespread adoption of
the free "Flash" Web browser plug-in (works on PC and MAC).

Combine these changes with the fact that over 50% of all
Internet users in the United States got high-speed access as
of 2005, and you set the stage for an online video
revolution.

In 2006, you will see the equivalent of little online TV
stations cropping up all over the Internet.

Along with the free-form, "anything goes" content of video
blogging (vlogging), commercial use of full-motion video
will fall into 4 basic categories.

Website "Infomercials" - Any savvy business knows the
Internet actually represents the largest direct-response
advertising medium ever seen.

As such, infomercial techniques of late-night fitness, self-
improvement, and real estate gurus will spill over into
other niche markets online.

Though initially not 30-minutes long like their TV
counterparts, online infomercials will last 2-5 minutes -
long enough to get all the main sales points across.

Live Demonstrations - If a picture is worth a thousands
words, then full-motion video is worth 100,000 words!

Any product that easily gets sold once people see it in
action will greatly benefit from online video.

Also, service businesses such as Realtors can now easily and
inexpensively create full-motion video home tours.

And, sellers on the popular eBay auction site can now show
and demonstrate their items rather than depending strictly
on text and static pictures to make the sale.

Before and After - Anyone selling a diet product, skin care,
cleaning, car repair or other product promising specific
results for the end user can now "show and tell" using full-
motion online video.

Imagine the impact of showing concrete evidence in "before
and after" video to help you make the sale online.

Product Testimonials - Despite widespread acceptance of
online shopping and ecommerce, many people remain skeptical
and somewhat leery of purchasing anything online, especially
based strictly on promises made on a website.

With video testimonials you can put their minds at ease by
showing video of people who used and benefited from the
product or service.

Imagine the impact that will have on the trust and
credibility for any website.

A word of caution to all would-be online videographers:
dial-up users still make up a huge part of the online
population, so you must always try to offer them a dial-up-
friendly option to watch your video or receive your
information.

Don't cater strictly to the high-speed crowd because you'll
alienate a significant portion of the marketplace.

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Jim Edwards is a syndicated newspaper columnist and the
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